Tag Archives: Aging

Hobo’s Dream, prose poem by @EvryManJac

Posted on April 23, 2018 by jaurquhart

            Hobo’s Dream © 2018 by Jack A. Urquhart In a hometown dream, I tramp familiar streets, gnarly stick thrown o’er my shoulder wags a hobo’s satchel banner, its colors bandana red, white, paisley. Worn … Continue reading →

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Penitence, a prose poem by @EvryManJac

Posted on June 12, 2017 by jaurquhart

©2017 by Jack A. Urquhart               Just so you know: I have my regrets. Doesn’t everybody? And yes, I am sorry— sorry for the grief I’ve caused. That, in a nutshell, is the story … Continue reading →

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Surrendering to Cliché, free verse by @jackaurquhart

Posted on July 6, 2014 by jaurquhart

©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart One after another, they fall— chestnuts from the hospital bed, the utterances of old age: “ ‘Beats me, how time gets away,” she crepitates, this crisp of sun-dried human being, this wisp of ossified womanhood. … Continue reading →

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